ESR 7 at Visiometrics in Barcelona

On 22nd of June 2018, Alberto Recchioni (ESR 7) visited Visiometrics (Halma Company) in Cerdanyola del Valles, Barcelona (Figure 1). Alberto, met Dr Santos Vives at ARVO 2018, and had a tour of the work carried out in Visiometrics and gave a short presentation about his project in Dry Eye in relation to ocular surgery funded by the EU under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 642760.

Dr. Pennos and Dr Vives are working in Research and Development in Dry Eye disease assessment look at new metrics that relate tear film with optical quality. The Visiometrics Tear Film Analyzer device can be used to identify Dry Eye patients and to acquire images of the meibomian glands using infra-red light (Figure 2).

Figure 2. The Tear Film Analyzer designed and produced by Visiometrics.